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Last Updated: Thursday, 24 March 2005, 19:33 GMT

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Quiz of the week's news

It's the Magazine's quiz of the week's news, 7 days 7 questions.

This quiz is published every Friday - but you can find it at any stage of the week on the Magazine index.

Question 1

Which of the following items was OUT of the nation’s metaphorical shopping basket, devised by the Office of National Statistics to measure inflation?


	A: Laptops


	B: Gerbils


	C: Cinema popcorn


	D: Cycle helmets

Question 2

Tony Christie's song (Is this the way to) Amarillo was a hit in 1971, as it is this week. Coincidentally, a government report this week into how life in the UK has changed since 1971 made some of these observations. But which one is made up?


	A: In 1971, a third of 25-year-old women didn't have children - by 2001, it was two-thirds


	B: In 1971, 35% of people owned a landline telephone - now 93% do


	C: A pint of milk cost 6p in 1971 - now it is an average 37p


	D: In 1971, people ate 118g of beef and veal per week - now it's 189g

Question 3

What is the accepted spelling of the former Soviet republic where the opposition claims to have overthrown the government?


	A: Kygrystan


	B: Krygrystan


	C: Kyrgyzstan


	D: Kyrgyrzstan

Question 4

What was described as “BBC silly” this week? (Clue: it wasn't anything to do with anyone biting their colleagues.)


	A: A £50,000 timber tower named Song, inspired by Winston Churchill’s wartime speeches.


	B: The announcement of 2,050 more redundancies at the corporation.


	C: The decision to axe TV show Superstars

Question 5

Jamie Oliver's attack on school dinners reached a head this week. But what has reportedly happened to the sales of Turkey Twizzlers, one of the products highlighted by Oliver?


	A: They have fallen by a third since this time last year


	B: They have been unaffected


	C: They have risen by a third since this time last year

Question 6

A survey this week found many people did not know the function of the prostate gland. What does it do?


	A: It's just another name for the testicles


	B: It opens and closes the bladder


	C: It produces some of the fluid in semen


	D: It doesn't actually do anything

Question 7

As a special Easter treat, there's no birthday question. Instead, the anniversaries of these three events all take place next week: the first London Marathon, the BBC's "spaghetti growing on trees" April Fool, and the oil slick from the Amoco Cadiz. Rank them, according to which happened before the others.


	A: Oil, Marathon, Spaghetti


	B: Spaghetti, Oil, Marathon


	C: Marathon, Spaghetti, Oil

Press the button and see how you have done

And now... the Bonus Question. We tell you the answer, you tell us the question.

This week's answer is "A LEGEND LOOKING FOR A HOME".

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

What is Howard Flight now ?
Martin Adams, Wombourne

What's afoot?
David Lindsey, Lichfield

The Property Iliadder?
Stephen Buxton, Coventry, UK

How do you advertise the sale of old police call boxes?
Mike B, Chester

Rearrange these letters to spell a phrase, h g e a n n o l o d f i e g k o m a l o r e
mike, bristol

Outdated Honda hopes for quiet retirement?
Sarah, Oswestry

(Question posed to Long John Silver's surgeon) "What have you got there, Doc?"
J. Read, Lowestoft

How did one newspaper headline describe Sir Harold Macmillan after his defeat in 1963 when he sought to congratulate his successor?
Charles Frean, Bedford, Massachusetts

All wrong. The correct question was how was former chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer described after spending nine months in a Japanese detention centre.

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